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Yesterday brought the news that another person subject to a Control Order has been released after the Government declined to make known to him the reasons that he has been detained. It is a standing affront to the rule of law that anyone’s liberty is curtailed without knowing the details of the charges against them. […]

As we start out, we thought we’d link to a few recent articles of note you might have missed: Henry Porter (Guardian) – We need to repeal 12 years of vile laws attacking our liberty Anthony Seldon (Independent) – We need trust, not more surveillance Philip Salter (Adam Smith Institute) – Reversing the rise of […]

Both the BBC and the Daily Telegraph are today running the story that a team from Queen’s University Belfast are developing a new generation of ISIS (Integrated Sensor Information System) CCTV cameras which could effectively predict criminals by mapping out suspicious behaviour and alerting authorities when passengers conform to their predetermined movements – not dissimilar to […]

Project Indect – the very name sounds Orwellian – was revealed last weekend by Open Europe and the Sunday Telegraph to be a five year research programme ‘to develop computer programmes which act as "agents" to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers.’ As well […]